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The Big Snit

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The Big Snit	comment	The Big Snit is a 1985 animated short directed by Richard Condie for the National Film Board of Canada. A husband and wife are playing Scrabble; as the husband obsessively re-shuffles the tiles on his rack (not that he can make many words with seven "E" tiles), the wife decides to do some vacuuming until he puts down a word. The husband takes advantage of her absence to watch his favourite television programme, Sawing for Teens, and begins sawing along with the teens on the TV before dozing off, thereby missing an announcement that worldwide nuclear war has broken out, and the human race has just minutes to live.However, when he wakes up, he gives in to temptation and looks at the letters on his wife's rack just as she returns to the room, and in a parallel to the conflict outside, the two begin arguing over various petty irritations until the wife runs out of the room in tears. It's up to the husband to find a way to restore peace between the couple, while he remains oblivious to the fact that the world outside has failed to resolve its own conflict.The film was nominated for Best Animated Short at the 1986 Oscar ceremony (some still say it was an Award Snub after it lost to another brilliant short Anna & Bella, a Dutch film about two sisters with similar existential themes).It can be watched on the NFB's official YouTube channel.
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The Big Snit / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: The husband is fast asleep when the nuclear war is announced on the television, and only wakes up when the cat chews through the cord. He looks out of the window at the screaming masses in the streets, and... concludes that they must be there for some sort of parade. He gives the scene no further thought. At the end of the short, the husband and wife somehow do not notice that they have been killed in a nuclear explosion and gone to Heaven, in spite of the very otherworldly scene stretching before them. The husband simply remarks that on days like this, he doesn't feel like doing much of anything, and the wife says, "Come on, let's finish the game."
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The Big Snit / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Big Snit / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: And how. A rather dim-witted husband and wife have a very silly slapstick argument over Scrabble, while nuclear holocaust and the end of the human race plays out in the background.
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The Big Snit / int_226f6129	type	Line Boil
The Big Snit / int_226f6129	comment	Line Boil: Like many 1980s animated shorts, the characters are drawn in a "line boil" style, their wobbly lines contrasting with the more stable background.
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The Big Snit / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Big Snit / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: There's a couple of shots where you can see the chaos outside through the window in the background.
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The Big Snit / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Big Snit / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: The husband denies having looked at the wife's letters, even though three of them have fallen off the rack as a result of his having turned it around quickly when she came back into the room. The wife then yells at the husband for sawing the table as part of his obsession with sawing. Even though he is doing so as she speaks, he still shouts back, "I AM NOT SAWING THE TABLE!"
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The Big Snit / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Big Snit / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Played for Laughs. The husband and wife have peacefully made amends... but they died in a nuke, neither of them noticing it.
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The Big Snit / int_4766015e	type	Eye Glasses
The Big Snit / int_4766015e	comment	Eye Glasses: The wife can actually remove her eyes from her face as if they were a pair of glasses, and frequently does so to shake them when she gets cross-eyed. It has apparently always grated on the husband's nerves, as this is his first point of attack when she complains about his having looked at her Scrabble tiles.
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The Big Snit / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Big Snit / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: The scenes of panic in the streets after imminent nuclear destruction is announced are packed with visual gags, some of which only last a few frames. These include a motorcycle driving over the cars on the road, a car seemingly being driven by a pack of dogs, a man in a turtle-drawn chariot, a telephone box being pushed along in front of a car, a man in just the back half of a car holding onto the fender of the car in front of him, a car somehow driving while upside-down, Noah's Ark (on the road, no less), a man sleeping peacefully in his bed somehow keeping pace with the cars around him, a steam engine, and a man on a hostess trolley. The high altitude shot of nuclear missiles flying all over the world includes a shot of Santa Claus and his sleigh and reindeer - complete with jingle bells. When the bombs hit, sending the couple (and their cat and parrot) to Heaven immediately, a collection of Scrabble tiles reading "HOTEL 10 KM" floats on screen for a few frames.
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The Big Snit / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
The Big Snit / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: The newsreader who interrupts Sawing for Teens to announce that worldwide nuclear war has broken out has already had the flesh flayed from his bones, leaving nothing but a skeleton in a suit. This does not stop him from maintaining his professional diction and demeanour to inform the public of the (useless) safety precautions they should take - even when his skull falls off his neck and onto the desk.
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The Big Snit / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
The Big Snit / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: A worldwide nuclear war makes this a Planetary apocalypse, with the destruction landing somewhere between Species Extinction and Total Extinction.
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The Big Snit / int_97069d40	type	Harmless Electrocution
The Big Snit / int_97069d40	comment	Harmless Electrocution: The cat, on chewing through the TV cord, yells in pain and then rushes to get a drink from his bowl. Other than that, though, he's fine.
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The Big Snit / int_9cb060c9	type	Retraux Flashback
The Big Snit / int_9cb060c9	comment	Retraux Flashback: When his wife has left the room in tears after their argument boils over, the husband sees a photograph of the two of them at "Expo 1957", and the picture comes to life to show how happy the couple were as newlyweds, but in more washed-out colour than the rest of the short to fit the faded colours of the picture.
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The Big Snit / int_a08b0736	type	Nuclear Option
The Big Snit / int_a08b0736	comment	Nuclear Option: We never learn why the nations of the world have been fighting, but things have apparently deteriorated to the point that they have decided nukes are the only way forward.
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The Big Snit / int_a6e57875	type	Scrabble Babble
The Big Snit / int_a6e57875	comment	Scrabble Babble: A non-cheating variation. The wife's tile rack reads CARROST, the uncorrected order implying that she doesn't realize she has an entire word. The husband's frustrated reordering of his tiles becomes hilarious when we see his own rack: EEEEEEE.
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The Big Snit / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Big Snit / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: We are given no indication whatever of the names of the main couple; even they never address each other by name.
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The Big Snit / int_ccbaffb6	type	We Interrupt This Program
The Big Snit / int_ccbaffb6	comment	We Interrupt This Program: Sawing for Teens is interrupted for a bulletin about nuclear holocaust.
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The Big Snit / int_de763115	type	Hollywood Board Games
The Big Snit / int_de763115	comment	Hollywood Board Games: The married couple's dumbness is emphasized by their utter failure at playing Scrabble. The wife's tiles read "CARROST" while the husband's is a bunch of "E"s. Both get frustrated and engage in other activities. Later, they start a silly, slapstick argument despite there being a nuclear war outside.
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The Big Snit / int_fadf1efc	type	Happy Flashback
The Big Snit / int_fadf1efc	comment	Happy Flashback: After their argument, the husband finds an old photo of him and his wife goofing around at the beach. After remembering that day, he decides to apologize.
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The Big Snit / int_ffac0279	type	Heart Symbol
The Big Snit / int_ffac0279	comment	Heart Symbol: The husband and wife are surrounded by heart symbols, and even have them in their eyes, when they reconcile after their argument.
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